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Faithfully adapted (to a fault) from Suzanne Collins' 2020 novel, "Songbirds & Snakes" features a Katniss precursor, Lucy Gray Baird, also from the region formerly known as Appalachia.
SPOILER ALERT: The following review contains mild spoilers. Amusing ourselves to death. That’s what media critic Neil Postman called the phenomenon that “The Hunger Games” author Suzanne ...
2/5 This origin story for Donald Sutherland’s monstrous bad guy from the original films casts Rachel Zegler as a dystopian theatre-kid and squanders the anger of novelist Suzanne Collins’s ...
On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 64% of 238 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 6.4/10. The website's consensus reads: "An outstanding cast and exciting story help make The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes a worthy return to Panem in spite of a rushed and somewhat frustrating ending."
It was released on May 19, 2020, by Scholastic with an audiobook of the novel, read by the American actor Santino Fontana, was released simultaneously. [1] The book had a virtual launch due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [2] A film adaptation by Lionsgate, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, was released on November 17, 2023. [3]
Two hours and 37 minutes is pretty long for a “ballad,” but you can’t call it “The Hunger Games: The Three-Cycle Opera of Songbirds and Snakes” now, can you? Concision was never much in ...
Zanobard Reviews wrote "James Newton Howard’s Ballad Of Songbirds & Snakes score reprises those classic Hunger Games motifs you know and love and… that’s about it really. Save one or two thunderous moments and a half-decent though sadly underutilised theme for Lucy Gray Baird, there just isn’t much else to remark about."
Directed by franchise vet Francis Lawrence, the Katniss-free prequel to the dystopian saga launches the back story of Coriolanus Snow, here played by Tom Blyth.